Shays’ Rebellion: The Hanging of Co-Leader, Captain Henry Gale

By Lisa Saunders
$2.99 Rating: Not yet rated.
Published: April 22, 2011
Words: 3,878 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781458043405


Short description

Henry Gale responded to Paul Revere’s call to Lexington and was honored as a patriot. Yet in the post-war credit crisis, he was considered a traitor for his leadership role in Shays’ Rebellion—an insurrection that influenced the adoption of the United States Constitution.

Extended description

Henry Gale responded to Paul Revere’s call to Lexington and was honored as a patriot. Yet a decade later, he was considered a traitor for his leadership role in Shays’ Rebellion—a movement to stop courts from prosecuting and jailing the many Revolutionary War veterans unable to pay their debts in the post-war credit crisis. After a military conflict between the insurgents and the militia, Henry Gale was arrested, found guilty of treason and sentenced to “be hanged by the neck until he be dead.” Marched up to the scaffold, the gathered crowd watched the noose placed around his neck and prayers said. Moments before this father of several young children was about to be dropped from the land of the living, the sheriff pulled out a piece of paper and read a statement from Governor John Hancock.

Tags

massachusetts, boston, revolutionary war, treason, john hancock, princeton, shays rebellion, henry gale, daniel shays, abraham gale, lisa saunders, sam adams, lighthorsemen, betsey gale sisson, william henry sisson, frank munro sisson, mary arne sisson mcdowell, russell gale mcdowell, mary ann mcdowell avazian, lisa marie avazian saunders

Available ebook reading formats

Single purchase gains access to all formats. How to download ebooks to e-reading devices and apps.
Format Full Book Sample First 20%
Online Reading (HTML, good for sampling in web browser)BuyView sample
Kindle (.mobi for Kindle devices and Kindle apps)BuyDownload sample
Epub (Apple iPad/iBooks, Nook, Sony Reader, Kobo, and most e-reading apps including Stanza, Aldiko, Adobe Digital Editions, others)BuyDownload sample
PDF (good for reading on PC, or for home printing)BuyNo sample available
RTF (readable on most word processors)BuyNo sample available
LRF (Use only for older model Sony Readers that don't support .epub)BuyDownload sample
Palm Doc (PDB) (for Palm reading devices)BuyDownload sample
Plain Text (download) (flexible, but lacks much formatting)BuyNo sample available
Plain Text (view) (viewable as web page)BuyNo sample available

Reviews

Log-in to write a Review   Log-in to add a Video Review

This book has not yet been reviewed.
Report this book